Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her life reflect her political activism as well as her deep engagement with myth; they are also some of her most formally experimental work. This selection of Seghers’s best stories, written between 1925 and 1965,...

Das Tagebuch von Anne Frank ist Symbol und Dokument zugleich. Symbol für den Völkermord an den Juden durch die Nazi-Verbrecher und Dokument der Lebenswelt einer einzigartig begabten jungen Schriftstellerin.

Judy Moody is in it to win it. Win the Book Quiz Blowout, that is. Judy and her brother, Stink, are two-fifths of the Virginia Dare Bookworms, and they’ve been reading up a storm to prepare for Saturday’s face-off against second- and third-grade readers from the next town. Judy’s trying out all kinds of tactics, from hanging upside down like Pippi Longstocking to teaching herself to speed read...

Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on Earth. He finds that the Earth has changed beyond recognition, filled with human beings who have been medical

Juli 1932, die Berliner Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel: Ein Mann liegt tot im Lastenaufzug von »Haus Vaterland«, dem legendären Vergnügungstempel am Potsdamer Platz, und alles deutet darauf hin, dass er dort ertrunken ist. Kommissar Gereon Rath hat schon genug Ärger. Seine Ermittlungen gegen einen mysteriösen Auftragsmörder treten seit Wochen auf der Stelle, seine große Liebe Charlotte Ritter...

The earth is so huge, and there are so many houses on it! Big and small. Beautiful and ugly. New buildings and ruins. And there is also a very tiny house of Carlson, who lives on the roof. Carlson is sure that this is the best house in the world and the b

In Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier, a father and husband, considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level.

A gritty, realist depiction of Ukraine and the post Soviet world, this book offers an affecting yet honest look into the life of someone suffering from PTSD. It is a story of growing up without much hope for a better future, and yet intense moments of connection and kindness persist. Just when things begin to seem insurmountably dark, a friendship begins, a kind word is said, or a hand reaches...

Wie handelt man richtig, wenn das moralische »Richtig« dem gesetzlichen »Richtig« widerspricht? Wie reagiert man auf Missachtungen der Menschenrechte durch höchste Regierungsinstanzen? Wie können wir urteilen über die, in deren Haut wir nicht stecken? Mit diesen Fragen, die Hannah Arendt bereits vor über 50 Jahren beschäftigten, werden wir heute wieder verstärkt konfrontiert. Damals wie heute...

All of us are anxious, Volodymyr Stanchyshyn convinces. This feeling accompanies us throughout our lives and performs important functions: it warns of danger and mobilizes a person to act in the event of a threat. Everyone's level of anxiety is different. This is due to genetics, stressful situations from childhood, injuries and self-esteem. How anxious each person is is made up of a cluster...

Berlin 1930 : Die Schauspielerin Betty Winter kommt bei Dreharbeiten ums Leben. Kommissar Rath entdeckt Indizien, die auf einen Mord hindeuten. Doch niemand glaubt ihm, und so muss er auf eigene Faust ermitteln. Schnell stößt er in ein komplexes Geflecht aus Rivalitäten und Erpressungen und gerät selbst in die Schusslinie.